Last week I saw one piece of theatre and one reading of a new piece, plus doing an array of surgeries, coaching, and working with new producers and new directors. Tomorrow is our monthly gathering of the “Producers’ Pool” where…
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We need theatre critics to uncover new work … please help
The arts in the UK, across the UK and into every pocket of community and fringe, owes a great debt of gratitude to Lyn Gardner and her employers at the Guardian for believing in the importance of widespread reporting of…
Hot meals in Calais – worth the trip of 2,000 miles ?
“Shall we go to Calais, I gather they make great curry?” According to the Mayor of Calais this is the starter question which will lead Eritreans, Kurds, Iraqi, Sudanese and others to leave their homeland and walk or smuggle themselves…
The essential A in STEAM – arts in education
My creative week has encompassed meetings with a playwright exploring 6 new projects which are each in commercial development, an inspiring concert with 4 cabaret bands and over 40 performers offering their celebration of contemporary music, a showcase of a…
Open Space Tibetan Bells
There is something very special about bringing out my tibetan cymbal bells for a new Open Space client. Tonight I had the pleasure to work with Kings College Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPNN to the know-crowd) and an…
Father/Master of the House….
Still Championing on the Fringe…at my age Most of my 58 year old contemporaries are either rich/famous from their creative decisions and brilliant positioning at the centre of the storm, or they have given up years ago and got a…
Art is International & in the hands of the next generation
This week, apart from my sense of play, I have been struck by the joy of international collaboration. At a time when politicians may be talking about narrowing their focus to the local and the immediate, the chosen ones and…
Play is serious business – and so so needed
This weekend, I was a guest at the launch of a new collaboration between the China based GengXing Culture Development Company, Ginger.cat, and the UK based Big Foot Arts Education. Big Foot work in schools to inspire young people through…
This House – a very personal despair
I have three personal rules: Only walk out of a show that I have bought a ticket for, try not to read reviews of a show I am going to see before seeing it, and (because I am not a…
Spotlight on arts and young people
I read an article on Wed 18th in the Evening Standard where Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, talked at Davos of the “crisis of the middle class”. Exploring where current Brexit and populism-fueled politics were squeezing out the middle…